Question

【题目】—It's reported that our country is very short _______ oil now.—That's right. What's worse, the price of oil has increased ________ 60 percent.

A.of; to
B.of; by
C.from; by
D.for; on

Answer 1

【答案】B
【解析】句意：---据报道我们国家现在非常缺乏石油。---是的，更糟糕的是，石油的价格已经增长了60%。短语：be short of短缺；介词to与by的不同是：to表示增加或减少“到”；by表示增加或减少“了”，根据句意，所以答案是B。